Month: July 2023
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Exposed: The Christian Nationalist challenging books in S. Carolina. A Holocaust novel is on her hit list.
ELIZABETH Ivie Szalai—affiliated with designated White Christian Nationalist hate group Moms for Liberty—appears to be avoiding questions from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency after it revealed this week that the 1966 novel The Fixer is on a list of around 100 books she wants removed from school libraries in Beaufort County, South Carolina. JTA reported that…
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Fort Worth sued for denying an atheist group permission to display anti-Christian nationalism banners
ANNOUNCING this week that Metroplex Atheists have launched a lawsuit against the Texas city, Geoffrey Blackwell, above—litigation counsel for American Atheists—declared that “free speech is free speech, whether or not the government likes that speech or certain members of the community object to it.” According to American Atheists, the lawsuit comes on the heels of…
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‘Bible-believing’ councillor ‘cancelled’ by UK’s Conservative Party & others for labeling Pride event ‘sinful’
AFTER learning via social media that nudity had been observed during a Pride event, King Lawal, above, tweeted his displeasure over “sinful” and “illegal” activity. As a consequence the 31-year-old got himself suspended earlier this month from his role of Conservative party councillor in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and is now making suing noises, claiming his “life…
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Finland’s ‘Bible trial’ enters a new phase as prosecutors appeal the acquittal of a Lutheran homophobe
FINNISH authorities stand accused of waging war on Christianity by Christian lawmaker Dr. Päivi Räsänen, above, who has been ordered to attend an appeal court hearing later this year. Premier Christian News reported that Räsänen’s run-in with Finnish anti-hate speech laws began in 2019 when she took to Twitter to express concern that her church…
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Court sides with a Catholic school that ordered a guidance instructor to dissolve her marriage or resign
FIVE years ago Shelly Fitzgerald, co-director of guidance at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis, was stunned when the President of the school confronted her with a copy of her marriage certificate and demanded to know why it bore the names of two women. When Fitzgerald explained that she had married her long-term partner Victoria—the couple…
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Volodymyr Zelensky is a Jew, ‘but not a good one’, opines Roseanne Barr
A FEW months back Barr, above, promised later-to-be sacked Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson that, in the midst of “cancel culture”, she, and other comedians would be “more offensive that they have ever been before.” The famous and very wealthy comedian made true on that promise in June with a “sarcastic” remark about the Holocaust.…
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U.N. votes to criminalise the desecration ‘holy books’ in a move slammed as imposing ‘blasphemy laws by stealth’
MEMBERS of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) this week voted in favour of a resolution for the “deliberately and publicly” burning of the Quran or “any other holy book” to be prohibited by law. The UK-based National Secular Society (NSS)—which, along with Humanists UK, played a key role in the abolition of blasphemy laws…
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Predatory Jesuit priest who may have drugged and sexually abused more than 50 men is jailed for 25 years
STEPHEN Sauer, above, was handed the sentence in Lousiana on July 7 after he pleaded guilty to multiple charges involving 17 adult victims. His crimes, according to this report, were centred around the French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans. Detectives believe that there are more than 50 victims who remain unidentified. The former Catholic priest…
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Pastor’s recent call for the execution of parents of trans people is an extension of religious moral panics
WHEN I learned this week that Edinburgh had acquired a Museum of Magic, Fortune-telling and Witchcraft, created to cast light light on a grisly period in Scottish history when nearly 4,000 people were accused and 2,500 executed for witchcraft, I immediately made a connection between past religious moral panics and recent reports centred on hysterical…
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Jewish baker who refused a rabbi’s order for Pride Month confectionery claims he’s a ‘victim of intolerance’
YITZY Mittel, co-owner of the West Orange Bake Shop in New Jersey, is being accused of bigotry and is facing a a boycott by local Jews after a regular customer—rabbi Julie Schwarzwald—was refused an order for kosher desserts she wanted for Pride Month. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that Mittel’s understanding of Jewish law is…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 